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Innovation is supposed to grow markets, but occasionally it can completely kill a mature market. AVAS Partners helps companies understand the changes in their market and make the changes necessary to grow the company.

Although America lags other developed countries in vehicle fuel economy and renewable-energy use, it has become a leader in greenhouse-gas reduction, cutting CO2 emissions almost 13% since 2007, says The New York Times. With recession and high fuel p...

Tricky problems must be shaped before they can be solved. To start that process, and stimulate novel thinking, leaders should look through multiple lenses.
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People could achieve greater happiness by spending fewer minutes each day working and commuting and more minutes having intimate relations, according to an analysis of surveys by Christian Kroll of Jacobs University in Germany and Sebastian Pokutta o...

Western executives undertaking M&A in China often lack the in-depth knowledge required to navigate the countless pitfalls unique to China's business environment they are sure to encounter--from the pre-deal phase through the postmerger integration. H...

The jazz form known as bebop arose not because Americans became hipper in the 1940s but because a postwar federal 20% tax on any nightclub that allowed dancing put swing bands out of business, musician Eric Felten writes in the Wall Street Journal. T...

Judith E. Glaser, author of Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy Thriving Organization , introduces a passage illuminating the drivers of success from Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Cha...

31% of adult Americans say they've stopped using at least one news outlet because it no longer provides enough information, according to the Pew Research Center. Of those people, 61% complain that the outlet's stories are less complete now than in th...